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Capt Samuel P Comly tonnage 11525 guns 18 speed 17 knots
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Capt William W Kimball tonnage 14948 guns 24 speed 19 knots
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Capt Hugo Osterhaus tonnage 16000 guns 24 speed 18 knots
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THE SEA HEDGEKOG
It Will Swallow Air Until It Swells
Into Invulnerability
Of fishes a lare number are pro
tected from hostile attack by a cov
ering of prickles By far the most
curious examples are the globefisbes
or sea hedgehogs of the Atlantic
and Indo Paclllc oceans The extreme
length of the globelish Is something
less than two feet It has thick lips
and goggle eyes which give It the ap
pearance of a good natural country
man Courage it seems to lack and
uie might suppose that such a sim
pleton would fall an easy prey to the
first shark or dogfish It encountered
iet the globefish is able to take care
of Itself It never under any circum
stances attacks the enemy yet is al
rays ready to receive him in a suit
able manner should he provoke hostil
ities
Let us suppose that a shoal of globe
fishes is swimming tranquilly in the
clear waters when It is suddenly sur
prised by a hungry shark Of course
the little fellows scuttle hither and
thither in uncontrollable alarm But
the shark poising himself upon his
powerful tail leisurely singles out one
of the fleeing globelishes and sets out
fu pursuit Now although the globe
fish is a good swimmer it is no match
for the shark The chase is in every
way unequal and can have but one
ending Within a few minutes of its
commencement the shark must over
take the globefish 15ut the quarry is
Avell aware of its danger It makes a
bee line for the surface and as soon as
it gets there begins to take in great
gulps of air
Then a strange thing happens The
fish that only a moment before was
thin and small begins to grow stouter
and stouter until like the frog In the
fable it seems in danger of bursting
It stops inflating itself however just
In time to avert this catastrophe Hut
its skin has become as taut as a drum
head and the whole of its body is cov
ered with sharp erect prickles It has
become n sea hedgehog and the hun
gry shark which comes surging through
the water dares not touch it but turns
tail in search of something more eata
ble Of course the globefish was cov
ered with prickles all the time but in
periods of tranquillity these lie com
fortably along Its sides just as do
those of the hedgehog Unlike its
land prototype however the sea
hedgehog is unprovided with a special
muscle for erecting its prickles so
when danger threatens it has recourse
to the mechanical method of inflating
the whole tody with air or with wa
ter if it cannot reach the surface
quickly Scientific American
SOME BABY DONTS
Dont rock babies it injures the
brain
Dont tease babies it will make them
cross
Dont trot babies it disturbs the
whole system
Dont romp with babies it excites
the brain too much
Dont dress babies stylishly it is
cruel to adorn a rose
Dont wake babies up to show them
they need all the sleep they can get
Dont let too many strangers handle
babies it will spoil their disposition
Dont put too many clothes on babies
in hot weather it will cause prickly
heat
Dont forget to give cool water often
it is the only thing to quench thirst
and ward off fever
Dont put long clothes on any baby
the weight has killed dozens of babies
Twenty eight inches is long enough for
comfort Pearsons Weekly
Its Fire and Its Girdle Cakes
The Chequers inn Osmotherley is a
relic of the old coaching days but it is
now famed for its fire which has nev
er been out for more than 100 years
and over which girdle cakes are baked
This huge fire is kept continually burn
ing by peat or turf from the Yorkshire
moors An excellent tea is provided
for visitors the chief dainty being the
girdle cakes The peat glows like red
embers on a red tiled floor the girdle
being suspended from a bar above the
whole looking most quaint and pictur
esque The exterior of the inn i most
unpretentious and old world looking
as it nestles alone on the Yorkshire
wolds London Standard
Agreed
Justice Fiekford when a barrister
was once speaking before a couple of
judges when a disagreement arose
After a long discussion on a point of
law one of the judges said We le
peat that the statement you make is
not good law and this court does not
sit to expound the law to you Mr
Tickford We have neither the wish
the time Nor the ability your
lordships interjected the barrister
Quite so quite so Now as to para
graph 3 Loudon Tit Bits
Obstinate Parents
Reginald said the head of the
family I have told you again and
again that you are not to pull the cats
tail
Reginald eyed him sadly You are
getting very obstinate father he said
reprovingly London Globe
Amicable Adjustment
I want you distinctly to understand
Einil that when your colleagues wife
has a new hat I want one too
Calm yourself my dear Weve
settled it between us Youre neither
of you going to get one Fiiegende
flatter
Built That Way
What does it mean pa when
ays a man bent his steps
That he was bow legged my son
Xew York Press
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CHURCHMAN AND DIPLOMAT
Cardinal Merry del Val Papal Secretary
of State
The present year has been a very
busy one for the papal secretary of
state Rafael Cardinal Merry del Val
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CARDINAL MERRY DEL VAIi
lie will be forty two this autumn and
was born while his father was secre
tary of the Spanish embassy in Lon
don On his mothers side he inherits
British blood and he was educated In
England at Baylis House Clough and
at St Cuthberts Roman Catholic col
lege Ushaw near Durham no com
pleted his studies on the continent
Residence in Spain England Austria
Italy and France has given him inti
mate knowledge of those countries and
he converses In their respective lan
guages with perfect fluency He was
elevated to the cardinalate with the
title of Santa Prassede by Pope Pius
X and was installed in the Important
post of papal secretary of state One
of the episodes in which the cardinal
recently figured was that of the seizure
by the French government of the pri
vate papers of Mgr Montagninl and
their publication They Included the
private correspondence between him
and Cardinal Merry del Val There
was little in them it was contended
to sustain the charge of interference
from Rome with French affairs of
state
STEVE ADAMS
Alleged Partner In Crime of the Mur
der Machine Harry Orchard
According to the story told on the
witness stand by Harry Orchard In the
Haywood trial in Idaho one of his prin
cipal partners In crime was Steve
Adams and the latter is alleged to
have made a confession which he
afterward repudiated The prosecution
produced Adams in court in order that
Orchard might identify him as the man
who he alleged had been assigned by
the inner circle of the Western Fed
eration of Miners to help get Bradley
In San Francisco Adams glared an-
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grily at Orchard when the two faced
each other in court According to Or
chards testimony Adams was sent to
San Fraucisco by Haywood to kill
Bradley but got into trouble in Utah
and telegraphed Haywood at Denver
asking him for 75 The testimony
relating to this alleged episode formed
an important part of the programme of
the prosecution in the effort to link
Orchards crimes with Haywood Moy
er and Pettibone
Pen Economy
The millionaire before filling his ink
well dropped in two or three old pens
and poured the writing fluid upon
them Thus he said I practice pen
economy prolonging three or four
times the life of all my pens You see
the corrosive power of the Ink which
Is Immensely strong vents Itself on
the old pens kept In the well and has
little or no strength left wherewith to
attack the pen I have in use Phila
delphia Bulletin
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BUYING OLD FIDDLES
Many
Fino Instruments Have Been
Picked Up Cheap
Great numbers of flue old violins and
violoncellos that come Into the high
class market of London are procured
The difficulties of the Homan Catholic through the medium of advertisement
church In France and the agitation be
tween clericals and anticlericals in
Spain and other controversies which
have called for the exercise of unusual
discretion have imposed heavy burdens
of anxiety upon the man who occupies
a post so close to the pope and must
assume responsibilities for much of the
latters policy The cardinal Is a young
man to have reached so high a station
in the hierarchy of his church lie suc
ceeded the veteran and courtly minis
ter of Leo XIII Cardinal Itampolla
when but thirty eight jears of age
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Inserted in obscure country papers
and especially those of ancient cathe
dral cities
Of course few of the fiddles thus ob
tained are veritable masterpieces but
a great many of them are line exam
ples of early English and foreign mak
ers and they are often bought for ri
diculously small prices by a group of
experts who have brought the busi
ness to a lucrative system Many u
struggling family of long descent in
some out of the way part of the coun
try happens to see In the one county
newspaper of the week that good
prices are given for old fiddles and
some long forgotten instrument in a
lumber room or put away on a shelf
suddenly comes to mind
Correspondence follows The dealer
sends a deposit in order that some fid
dle spoken of may be sent to him aim
examined and lie usually replies that
the Instrument sent is dilapidated aim
but so so generally but that he Is will
ing to give TiO shillings or Ll for it i
a great many cases the offer Is ac
cepted offhand and in this way mosc
of the finest fiddles extant of the sec
ond class come Into the hands of deal
ers Only lately a cello that came
from a Shropshire farm at the price
of 2 sold the same day to a west
end dealer for nearly 100
One of the most shrewd and respect
ed of all these dealers was until a
year or two ago a humble member of
the orchestra of a London suburban
theater He began to advertise in ie
mote papers to the greatest limits of
his scanty wages and is now one or i
the most extensive and prosperous
dealers in the trade London Tit Bits
A SILLY TRAGEDY
Duel Between Tom Porter
and
Sir Henry Bellasis
Some of the royalists who avcp
forced to endure the English common
wealth seemed to console themselves
for the dullness of life under a Puritan
government by fighting as many duels
as they could compass so that Ignoble
squabbles and foolish plots make up
the history of their days
Tom Torter was of a family which
had zealously served the king Under
the new government his occupation was
gone and he descended to a triviality
of life which finally involved him in a
most pathetic event This was a duel
which he fought with his friend Sir
Henry Bellasis and which says Pepys
In his Diary is worth remembering
for the silliness of the quarrel a
kind of emblem of the general com
plexion of the whole kingdom
But silly as the quarrel undoubtedly
was it carried in it an element of heart
break
The two young men involved were
intimate friends and companions but
one day being merry In company
Tom Porter said he should like to see
the man in England who would dare
give him a blow With that Sir Henry
Bellasis struck him a box on the ear
The inevitable duel followed wherein
each was wounded Sir Henry proved
to be seriously hurt so ho called Por
ter kissed and bade him fly
For said he Tom thou hast hurt
me but I will make shift to stand upon
my legs till thou mayest withdraw for
I would not have thee troubled for
what thou hast done
Porter profited by his friends gener
osity and escaped to France Sir Henry
died a few days later and Pepys con
cludes It is pretty to see how the
world do talk of them as a couple of
fools that killed one another out of
love
Spying on Bargain Gifts
The engaged girl was found study
ing life in an auction room
I dont expect to buy anything she
said but I want to see if anybody I
know buys anything A lot of auc
tioneers are advertising that they have
on hand and pictures and
odds and ends of furniture suitable
for wedding presents That set me to
wondering if any of my friends would
try to avail themselves of these auc
tion room bargains when buying pres
ents for me I saw two girls here this
afternoon who have been invited to
my wedding One bought some kind
of a brass bowl another a vase They
got the things dirt cheap I fancy they
are for me If they are well just
wait till those girls get married
New York Tress
When to Take Off the Sinker
For angling in quiet deep running
water more sinkers should be placed
on the leader to keep it down from the
surface but if angling in a quick
running brook or river for chub dace
or brook trout the float and sinkers
should be removed and the bait al
lowed to run in front of the angler
wherever it wills on the surface by
the action of the current which takes
it naturally just as nature does their
general food Louis Rhead in Outing
Magazine
A Long Tumble Needed
They say fhat when a man is fall
ing from a height he thinks of all his
evil deeds
I dont believe it
A hy not
Some men would have to fall out of
a balloon to get em all In Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Floored
One Sexton Do you have matins at
your church The Other Xo we have
oilcloth Harpers Weekly
The fathers virtue Is the childs
best inheritance Chinese Proverb
The best of every
thing in his line at
the most reasonable
prices is flarshs
motto He wants
your trade and
hopes by merit to
keep it
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